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  "disclaimer": "Analysis and opinion, not investment advice.",
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  "summary": "Steve Eisman appears in Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10 of The Buildout. Part 4: AI Spending Has Met Its First Real Bill; Part 5: OpenAI and Anthropic Are Not the Same Business; Part 6: Power Doesn’t Depreciate. Its Premium Moves.; Part 7: The Fed Hiked. The Long End Still Climbed.; Part 8: AI Lenders Are Financing the End of Scarcity; Part 9: Habit Was the Moat. Agents Are Draining It.; Part 10: The Bubble Is in the Denominator. Argued in Part 4 (Voices that cross sides), Part 6 (Scarcity as a warning), Part 7 (Debt: 99% of GDP, up from 35%), Part 8 (Guarantees, not faith), Part 10 (Not the customers, yet).",
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      "headline": "AI Spending Has Met Its First Real Bill",
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      "part": 5,
      "headline": "OpenAI and Anthropic Are Not the Same Business",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/anthropic-grew-142-percent-openai/"
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      "headline": "Power Doesn’t Depreciate. Its Premium Moves.",
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      "headline": "The Fed Hiked. The Long End Still Climbed.",
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      "headline": "AI Lenders Are Financing the End of Scarcity",
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      "headline": "Habit Was the Moat. Agents Are Draining It.",
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      "part": 10,
      "headline": "The Bubble Is in the Denominator",
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      "part": 4,
      "section": "Defense has a case",
      "excerpt": "Steve Eisman, in The Real Eisman Playbook, relays the case that the industry is only in year three of an eight-to-ten-year buildout, comparable to building the Las Vegas Strip in the 1950s.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-market-stops-paying-for-faith/"
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      "part": 4,
      "section": "The tape picks winners",
      "excerpt": "Steve Eisman writes that investors rewarded whoever spent the most for two years, then started asking who would earn a return.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-market-stops-paying-for-faith/"
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      "part": 5,
      "section": "Lede",
      "excerpt": "Steve Eisman reported the same gap a fortnight later, with a brutal addendum: OpenAI’s costs rose about $3bn against roughly $1bn of new revenue.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/anthropic-grew-142-percent-openai/"
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      "part": 6,
      "section": "Scarcity has three faces",
      "excerpt": "Steve Eisman, in a conversation with Ed Zitron, draws the darker inference: data centers are harder and costlier to build than planned, gigawatt projects are late, and every month of slippage gives customers who already lose money more time to stumble.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/power-doesnt-depreciate/"
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      "part": 7,
      "section": "The calm is real",
      "excerpt": "Treasury buybacks of long bonds, $4 billion and then $6 billion, held yields down for one day, Steve Eisman points out.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-fed-hiked-the-long-end-kept-climbing/"
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    {
      "part": 7,
      "section": "Three prices for 5%",
      "excerpt": "George Noble, speaking with Steve Eisman, starts from roughly $40 trillion of federal debt and concludes that no Treasury secretary can talk rates down against that weight.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-fed-hiked-the-long-end-kept-climbing/"
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      "part": 8,
      "section": "Cash, or a loop",
      "excerpt": "Steve Eisman estimates that about 70% of the AI revenue hyperscalers book comes directly or indirectly from those two labs.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-scarcity-is-the-collateral/"
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      "part": 9,
      "section": "The first bill",
      "excerpt": "A rate hike and an oil shock moved markets in the same weeks, and Steve Eisman argues that nothing but oil and interest rates matters right now.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/habit-was-the-moat/"
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      "part": 10,
      "section": "Who writes the checks",
      "excerpt": "Against that growth sits the loss-making base of the chain: Steve Eisman, in an episode with Ed Zitron, cited OpenAI’s $20.9 billion loss in 2025 on $13.07 billion of revenue.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-bubble-is-in-the-denominator/"
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      "part": 10,
      "section": "The bill raises the rate",
      "excerpt": "Steve Eisman calls 5% the Rubicon, while noting that oil and the 10-year are the two variables that matter and neither is predictable.",
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